Economics

Biden Infrastructure Plan Endangered by Dire U.S. Shortages

  • Companies wary to invest in job training, capacity building
  • Supply shortfalls threaten to impede ramp up in spending
Photographer: Eddie Seal/Bloomberg
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The biggest threat to President Joe Biden’s vision of energizing the U.S. economy with the largest infrastructure program in decades may not be its challenging path through Congress, but a dire shortage of everything from workers to cement mills.